The Durrells

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Episode 5

Louisa becomes jealous of Spiros spending time with a new Italian family who have arrived on the island – the effortlessly beautiful and impossibly glamorous Ferraris.

Determined to find out more about her competition, Louisa invites the seemingly perfect family to the house, but soon starts to suspect that there is more to them than meets the eye.

Margo in particular is dazzled by eldest daughter, Clara, and feels inferior. However, her attempts to aspire to her idol’s perfection go awry when she kisses the feet of Saint Spyridion.

Meanwhile, Larry joins the fire service and Gerry falls for a local girl.

Series overview

ITV returns to Corfu for more sun, sea and animals in a third series of hugely popular drama, The Durrells.

Produced by thriving drama indie, Sid Gentle Films Ltd. as a co-production with MASTERPIECE, the series sees acclaimed actress Keeley Hawes (The Missing, Line Of Duty) reprise her role as matriarch Louisa Durrell for a brand new eight- part series.

Written by BAFTA award nominee, Simon Nye (Men Behaving Badly, Reggie Perrin), and based on Gerald Durrell’s trilogy of books, The Durrells tells the story of Louisa and her four spirited and unruly children, Larry (Josh O’Connor), Leslie (Callum Woodhouse), Margo (Daisy Waterstone) and Gerry (Milo Parker) as they start a new life in Corfu in the 1930s.

In the new series, Louisa has made the decision to give up searching for love, choosing instead to focus on her family. However, with Larry struggling to write his third novel, Margo in search of a new vocation, Gerry continuing to grow his menagerie and Leslie juggling three different girls, Louisa has her work cut out. With an imminent arrival from her Aunt (Barbara Flynn), Louisa hopes that Hermione will be able to help set her children back on the straight and narrow.

Also reprising their roles in the upcoming series are Alexis Georgoulis (Marionetes) as Spiros, Anna Savva (Tyrant) as Lugaretzia, Yorgos Karamihos (Ben- Hur) as Theodore, Lucy Black (Call The Midwife) as Florence, Ulric Von Der Esch (Crossing Lines) as Sven, James Cosmo (SS-GB) as Creech and Leslie Caron (Chocolat) as the Countess Mavrodaki. New faces to join the cast for the series include Miles Jupp (Howard’s End), Henry Lloyd-Hughes (Indian Summers) and newcomer Elli Triggou.